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 NAVARRO wrote:
OTT to be honest, its fun to have lots of tiny critters and some big ones, but swarms of big ones? Yeah zilla was cool back in the day but all of these HUGE kits for the sake of Huge stuff creates a problem for me.
I mean just look at the volume space those tentacles take, ridiculous.

Dont have the space at home just dedicated for nids so they have to fight for a position in my collections... design wise all to samey too, just bigger... guess its not for me then.

On the tentacles. They all cast together to a shaped joint with a peg. It appears it's not too difficult to magnetize for transport. When you can pop the tentacles off, the model is similar in transport size to a tervigon/fex

luke1705 wrote:
What is the source on this alleged rumored "baneblade sized bug"? Link plox!


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Just kidding I found it. MORE NIDS!

Could you share the link? Thanks.

 Bulldogging wrote:

luke1705 wrote:
What is the source on this alleged rumored "baneblade sized bug"? Link plox!


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Just kidding I found it. MORE NIDS!

Could you share the link? Thanks.

http://www.warpshadow.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=17863&start=105
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Terrorfex wrote:Next week we shall see a 3 Zoantrophe/Toxotroph Box Set with the Doom of malantai included as the new Neurotrophe. And very vague sightings of a bane blade sized tyranid creatures are spreading...

The main interesting part is the timing, it was posted several hours before we got picture confirmation of the new Zoan kit. The poster is also German, which may explain the odd unit names - can anyone confirm if Venomthropes are called Toxotrophes in German?

 Tyran wrote:


I wouldn't have problems with the Swarmlord moving to Lord of War as long as he gets some awesome rules to compensate and justify the Lord of War slot.

Ghazkull got worse, Logan got a much derided sled, Draigo got better but probably would have anyways, and Vect...
I wouldn't expect Swarmy to change overmuch.

xttz, yes they are called Toxotroph(e - plural) in Germany

If swarmlord got moved that would be great! i could bring 2 tyrants the warmlord and sooo many hiveguard! =D

realistically all the LoW thing does is free up a HQ slot which im fine with =D

When will the campaign book go up for preorder? Tonight? Tomorrow? I'd like to know when to call in to my FLGS(or F5 the GW website if I have to).

Tomorrow, same as the Zoanthropes.

Tomorrow for the new Zoanthrope, Neurothrope and Venomthrope pre-orders - then Saturday or Sunday for leaked info on the next new wave of stuff

There a specific time they go up, or just whenever GW feels like it?

Anywhere from 2:15 to 3:00pm.

It varies wildly but that's the timeframe.

Thanks Kanluwen, I appreciate it.

Usually between 5am and 7am for Australia. I really don't want to miss this one, though I doubt it'll go as quick as the Void Shield Generator (that one I stayed up all night to ensure I got that.

Is the campaign book seriously limited edition?? It seems like an extremely valuable update to the tyranid codex...

I just checked the rules for Sporeocyst, and boy does that sound fun. I might just buy one if I actually played with a Nid player.

(P.S. This is kind of old news but... with the 7E Tyranid Warrior kit not having plastic rippers, does that mean that those plastic rippers are completely out of print now?)

madmitch411 wrote:Is the campaign book seriously limited edition?? It seems like an extremely valuable update to the tyranid codex...

Yep. Luckily the rules are currently available online for the new tyranid units. Hopefully they'll stay up.

Quarterdime wrote:I just checked the rules for Sporeocyst, and boy does that sound fun. I might just buy one if I actually played with a Nid player.

(P.S. This is kind of old news but... with the 7E Tyranid Warrior kit not having plastic rippers, does that mean that those plastic rippers are completely out of print now?)

There are still some on the Genestealer and Carnifex(?) sprues. Still hard to get really.

 Sinful Hero wrote:

madmitch411 wrote:Is the campaign book seriously limited edition?? It seems like an extremely valuable update to the tyranid codex...

Yep. Luckily the rules are currently available online for the new tyranid units. Hopefully they'll stay up.

As it stands right now, the "limited edition" tag for the End Times and the forthcoming book is a bit of a misnomer. They are currently getting ready to release paperback versions of Nagash and Glottkin.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Sinful Hero wrote:

madmitch411 wrote:Is the campaign book seriously limited edition?? It seems like an extremely valuable update to the tyranid codex...

Yep. Luckily the rules are currently available online for the new tyranid units. Hopefully they'll stay up.

As it stands right now, the "limited edition" tag for the End Times and the forthcoming book is a bit of a misnomer. They are currently getting ready to release paperback versions of Nagash and Glottkin.

I think you're in the wrong thread- we're talking abou the Tyranid campaign book. Haven't the campaigns(Valedor for instance) for 40k been limited so far?

 Sinful Hero wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Sinful Hero wrote:

madmitch411 wrote:Is the campaign book seriously limited edition?? It seems like an extremely valuable update to the tyranid codex...

Yep. Luckily the rules are currently available online for the new tyranid units. Hopefully they'll stay up.

As it stands right now, the "limited edition" tag for the End Times and the forthcoming book is a bit of a misnomer. They are currently getting ready to release paperback versions of Nagash and Glottkin.

I think you're in the wrong thread- we're talking abou the Tyranid campaign book. Haven't the campaigns(Valedor for instance) for 40k been limited so far?

The "Apocalypse Warzone" books such as Valedor and Pandorax were done last edition and they weren't limited in any real sense of the word. My local GW has at least one or two copies of each sitting on the shelves, and that in spite of Valedor having sold like hotcakes after I showed my copy around and some of the Tyranid players saw the formations.

And the Stormwolf campaign(or whatever the Space Wolves vs Orks book was called), was it limited? I guess it was the first of these campaign books(for 7th anyway), but I haven't bothered to look to see if it's still available.

Both "The Red Waagh!"(Book I) and "Hour of the Wolf"(Book II) are still currently available via the GW website.

Good news then- I stand corrected. Hopefully they won't sell out.

You still get Rippers in the Termagant kit.

I take it no update on the new baneblade sized beastie then? Can we assume then that this was a reference to the Toxicrene?

 angelofvengeance wrote:
I take it no update on the new baneblade sized beastie then? Can we assume then that this was a reference to the Toxicrene?

Probably have to wait until monday/tuesday when the next WD leaks come out.

 Sinful Hero wrote:
Good news then- I stand corrected. Hopefully they won't sell out.

There is always the digital version, and even if you don't have a tablet or ebook reader you can take to games with it on you are free to print a personal (all or just the relevant bits) copy either using your own printer or a print shop.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
I take it no update on the new baneblade sized beastie then? Can we assume then that this was a reference to the Toxicrene?

Probably have to wait until monday/tuesday when the next WD leaks come out.

Having already seen the next leaked WDW cover (or the top of it at least) I doubt there will be anymore new nids for a while. The next WDW seems to be heading in the WHFB End Times direction.

Genestealer cavalry lol, that's the unique moment when you're happy GW does not listen to customers.

On topic, I like neither new zoanthrope nor venomthrope. The latter is ok but worse than the old one. Was waiting for plastic kit, hunting for finecast ones now.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
I take it no update on the new baneblade sized beastie then? Can we assume then that this was a reference to the Toxicrene?

We probably won't find out for a while if that was foreshadowing some new big bug or just rumour reverb about the Toxicrene. But while next week seems to go back to the Hobbit and the End Times (about Khaine this time), it does look like there will be more stuff in store for 'Nids in the nearby future. E.g., there's the new Broodlord model on that painting guide and the rumoured BA vs 'Nid campaign box (in which said Broodlord is most likely included).

The campaign book that's going up for pre-order this weekend seems to be about the initial stages of invasion of Baal's Shield Worlds versus the Imperial Guard, Stormtroopers and Sisters of Battle. It does make some sort of sense that, if there is indeed some larger monster in store for 'Nids, that it is released when Leviathan has to face off against the Blood Angels themselves, needing to bring out the big bugs.

Plumbumbarum wrote:
Genestealer cavalry lol, that's the unique moment when you're happy GW does not listen to customers.

On topic, I like neither new zoanthrope nor venomthrope. The latter is ok but worse than the old one. Was waiting for plastic kit, hunting for finecast ones now.

You'll have no problem there, rather the opposite I suspect. Most people will be looking to get rid of theirs.